Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods

Author(s): Lucian Of Samosata, Howard Williams

Genre(s): Classics (greek & Latin Antiquity), Dramatic Readings, Satire

Narrators: Foon, Owen Cook, Tomas Peter, Scotty Smith, Group, Stefan Von Blon, Cathar Maiden, Sonia, ToddHW, Leanne Yau

Number of Chapters: 27

Length: 02 hours and 39 minutes

Language: English

The Dialogues of the Gods are 26 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. Almost 1900 years old, these dialogues still retain a lot of their original humor and wit.

The cast list for dialogues with 3 or more readers is given below:

Dialogue 8:
Zeus: Owen Cook
Hephæstus: KevinS
Stage directions: Foon

Dialogue 9:
Poseidon: ToddHW
Hermes: Owen Cook
Stage directions: Foon

Dialogue 13:
Zeus: ToddHW
Asklepius: Foon
Herakles: KevinS

Dialogue 20:
Zeus: alanmapstone
Hermes: Owen Cook
Hera: Foon
Athena: Sonia
Aphrodite: Sandra Schmit
Paris: Aaron White
Stage directions: ToddHW

Editor: Campbell Schelp
(Summary by Foon)

Preface (Foon)

Dialogue I: Prometheus obtains his release from Zeus by a prophecy (Owen Cook)

Dialogue II: Zeus threatens to put Eros in fetters (Tomas Peter)

Dialogue III: Zeus orders Hermes to slay Argus, and to conduct Io to Egypt (Scotty Smith)

Dialogue IV: Zeus instructs Ganymedes as to the nature of his duties in heaven (Owen Cook)

Dialogue V: Hera upbraids Zeus with his love for Ganymedes (Scotty Smith)

Dialogue VI: Ixion makes love to Hera (Scotty Smith)

Dialogue VII: Hephæstus recounts to Apollo the actions of the infant prodigy, Hermes (Owen Cook)

Dialogue VIII: Hephæstus assists at the parturition of Zeus and the birth of Athena (Group)

Dialogue IX: Hermes refuses Poseidon admission to Zeus, and assigns as the reason the lying-in of the king of gods and men with Bacchus (Group)

Dialogue X: Hermes conveys to Helios the order of Zeus (Stefan Von Blon)

Dialogue XI: Aphrodite charges Selene with her love for Endymion, and, at the same time, laments the tyranny of her son, Eros, over herself (cathar maiden)

Dialogue XII: Aphrodite upbraids Eros for his mischievous conduct in the past, and cautions him for the future (cathar maiden)

Dialogue XIII: Asklepius and Herakles quarrel on a question of precedence in heaven (Group)

Dialogue XIV: Apollo recounts to hermes the manner of the death of Hyakinthus, and his grief for the same (Stefan Von Blon)

Dialogue XV: Hermes and Apollo envy the deformed Hephæstus the possession of his beautiful wives (Stefan Von Blon)

Dialogue XVI: Hera and Leto dispute about the merits of their respective children (Sonia)

Dialogue XVII: Hermes narrates to Apollo the adultery of Ares and Aphrodite, and the revenge of Hephæstus (Stefan Von Blon)

Dialogue XVIII: Hera denounces, and Zeus defends, the character of Bacchus (Foon)

Dialogue XIX: Eros explains to his mother why he does not assail Athena, the Musæ, and Artemis (cathar maiden)

Dialogue XX: The Judgment of Paris (Group)

Dialogue XXI: Ares ridicules the threat of Zeus, and the chain let down from heaven (Owen Cook)

Dialogue XXII: Pan urges his claims to be the son of Hermes, who is unwilling to admit his paternity (Stefan Von Blon)

Dialogue XXIII: Apollo remarks to Bacchus on the heterogeneousness of Aphrodite's children; while Bacchus exposes the character of Priapus (ToddHW)

Dialogue XXIV: Hermes complains to his mother of the multiplicity of his employments (Leanne Yau)

Dialogue XXV: Helios, accused by Zeus of rash conduct in giving up his chariot to his son, obtains a conditional pardon (Owen Cook)

Dialogue XXVI: Apollo asks Hermes to point out to him, of the twin dioscuri which is Kastor and which Polydeukes; and takes the opportunity of criticising their divine pretensions (Owen Cook)

The audiobook Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods falls under the genres of Classics (greek & Latin Antiquity), Dramatic Readings, Satire. It is written by Lucian Of Samosata, Howard Williams.

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